Avant-garde

The 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes will be celebrated at a gala concert in October, including Mexican composer Juan Trigos, the inaugural winner of the newest Azrieli prize, the Commission for International Music.

Stellar technique and vast interpretive creativity make this wide-ranging release stand out among this year's many fine piano albums.

The Ukrainian-American pianist read from her memoir 'Weight in the Fingertips' and played classics and music written for her in honor of the book's publication.

Riverside Choral Society sang music of John Luther Adams and Alberto Grau and the New York premiere of 'The End of Rain' by Scott Ordway, an impassioned response to the California wildfires.

Prize-winning and commissioned compositions from the Azrieli Foundation received New York premieres at Lincoln Center.

Flanagan performed solo violin works he commissioned from a plethora of contemporary composers, all inspired by artworks.

The Bard Festival Chorale and soloists joined Leon Botstein and the ASO for Schoenberg's massively orchestrated, rarely heard cantata.

New works by Azrieli Music Prize winners Iman Habibi, Aharon Harlap and Rita Ueda will receive U.S. debuts with Orchestra of St. Lukes.

The Knights called on Maurice Ravel, Kurt Weill, Du Yun, Bob Dylan and more for the orchestra's contribution to Carnegie Hall's Weimar commemoration series.

The Armenian pianist played 'Rhapsody in Blue,' and much more, with conviction and flair at a concert she called 'All That Jazz.'